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By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/10/2003
Species: Salmon
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/10/2003
Hot Spots: 0
We got to the lake about 8:00 am and found at least 50 rigs/trailers in the parking lot. Found out later they were mostly the big Bass buggies heading way up lake to fish for smallmouth. We fished t...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/1/2003
Species:
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/1/2003
Hot Spots: 0
Three of us fished a couple of small inlet streams out of dad's new 20' thunderjet. Total take was 5 silvers 13-15 inches,5 bows 11-17 inches, and 4 cutts 12-14 inches. We also released an 18 inch and...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/11/2003
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/11/2003
Hot Spots: 0
First off-Riffe does NOT have kokanee. Kokanee are land-locked sockeye. Riffe has land-locked coho. Anyways, got to lake about 0645 and started trolling wedding ring behind flashers, lost a few bites-...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/10/2003
Species:
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/10/2003
Hot Spots: 0
Well me And my buddy fished the dam @ all night long and caught about 15 silver and 4 Rain bow off of a 1/4 green spoon anywhere from about 8 inches to 18 inches. Before that we tried using bait and n...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/29/2003
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Rating: 4
Fished: 3/29/2003
Hot Spots: 0
We got in the lake at about 9:00 am. It was blowing about 15 to 20 mph and hard to control a troll. We fished a little over a hour and the two young boys were cold and ready to quit even though they...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 1/25/2003
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Rating: 5
Fished: 1/25/2003
Hot Spots: 0
Got to the Dam about 10:00AM and had our limit by 11:30AM.
They were biting real soft so took a little bit to start catching them. Was using worm with shrimp. Lots of fun, but wish people would pick ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 1/11/2003
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Rating: 5
Fished: 1/11/2003
Hot Spots: 0
Got to Mossyrock Dam at about 8 am. Started fishing and about two hours later limited out on mostly 9-10 inches. Caught three about 12 inches. We were using worms and shrimp with a little WD 40. With ...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 8/21/2002
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Rating: 3
Fished: 8/21/2002
Hot Spots: 0
I took my sons to fish the lake in the morning. We started out near by the dam, northwest corner of the lake. Couldn't keep the kokanee off the riggers! The hot rig was a small gang troll, small spinn...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/10/2002
Species:
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/10/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Got there a little late, about 1 in the afternoon. It was extremely windy on the fishing bridge, but they seemed to be biting. everyone was catching the small silvers and some rainbows as well. Then t...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/22/2002
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Rating: 1
Fished: 5/22/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Started fishing at the dam at 5:00 a.m. using a slip bobber and shrimp. Started at 5 ft. and worked my way down to 30 ft. Nothing, nodda. After an hour and a half, decided to try the fishing bridge at...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/3/2002
Species:
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/3/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing was slow but the weather was perfect. Fish are taking bait at about 6 to 10 feet.
By: Anonymous
Posted: 12/28/2001
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Rating: 4
Fished: 12/28/2001
Hot Spots: 0
I fished on the Hwy 12 side of the dam. Cocktail shrimp 10 feet under a slip bobber. Five fish in 40 minutes. All right about 11 inches.
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/5/2001
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Rating: 4
Fished: 8/5/2001
Hot Spots: 0
Took the week off camping at Mossyrock Dam Park. The weather was pretty warm hi 80-90's all week. Went to all my favorite fishing spots. Pretty slow though...only 7 silvers, 14+ inches. However, I...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/14/2001
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Rating: 3
Fished: 7/14/2001
Hot Spots: 0
After a morning on the Cowlitz River, dad and I decided to relax and do some lake fishing. We started fishing at about 12:15pm and trolled along the dam and then out toward the middle, straight out f...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/14/2001
Species:
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/14/2001
Hot Spots: 0
Riffe lake has it going on right now!!!! Me and my soon to be wife
got to the lake at 5a.m. and fished all day (how lucky I am to have
a woman who is psyched about fishing). Got our limit and had a ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/8/2001
Species:
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/8/2001
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the west end of Riffe on Sunday 7/8/01 from 8:00 am - 1:30 pm and brought approx 15 fish to the boat. We kept 8 fish between the 2 of us with most of them going 12" - 17". Picked up a few in t...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/1/2001
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Rating: 5
Fished: 7/1/2001
Hot Spots: 0
A great day on Riffe Lake. The boat launch was accessible for the 16 foot Lund and launched OK with only a two wheel drive vehicle. Once on the lake with pole in hand it was obvious from the firs...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/1/2001
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/1/2001
Hot Spots: 0
The water is still quite low, so if you're fishing from the bank anywhere
there's a little more hiking to do than usual, along with some steep
drop-offs, so be careful out there! We fished on the so...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/22/2001
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Rating: 5
Fished: 6/22/2001
Hot Spots: 0
Bite is on!!!
Caught limits both days some 17 inchers. Boat ramp at mossyrock not the best but usable. Most of the fish were in 25 to30 feet of water the nicer fish that is lots of little ones ne...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/19/2001
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Rating: 5
Fished: 5/19/2001
Hot Spots: 0
Success! We went with smallmouths in mind and were not disappointed. Largest was 17 inches weighing in at 4lbs. The hot lure was a 3in plastic crawdad with a 1/32 oz jig head. Find small coves were st...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/19/2001
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Rating: 5
Fished: 5/19/2001
Hot Spots: 0
Riffe is hot! I went out there Saturday with Dennis and we knocked em' dead. He caught a smallmouth that weighed 4lbs and was 17in. long. We caught numerous others but that was the biggest. We also ho...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/13/2001
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Rating: 1
Fished: 5/13/2001
Hot Spots: 0
The lake was low, but has come up slightly since early spring. The boat ramp at the Mossy Rock campground was high and dry so we used the old highway instead, the longest launch I've ever made, but se...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/23/2001
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Rating: 1
Fished: 3/23/2001
Hot Spots: 0
Made a big loop today through three counties Alder and Riffe are virtually unfishable. Riffe is like a dry desert although we found THE BIGGEST crawdads I've ever seen. Uneventful day oh the few earl...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/29/2000
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Rating: 3
Fished: 6/29/2000
Hot Spots: 0
A couple of us trolled the two islands to the right of the boat launch early that evening. Didn't have much strikes, except for a few silvers until the sun started going down when I pulled in a 6lb s...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/22/2000
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Rating: 5
Fished: 5/22/2000
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Riffe about Two in the afternoon and had our limit of Silvers by 5pm. We trolled fairly fast in 60-100 ft. of water. We used leaded line with a Double wammy on one pole and Wedding ring on the oth...